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[Hot Heads]

Shows some potential to be a nice beat-em-up, but at the moment it is very rough and needs a lot more work. Just doesn't feel that satisfying due to the dull, lifeless and disconnected feedback for hits, spongy brainless enemies that don't vary in any significant way to spice things up, a lackluster player moveset which devolves the gameplay into just spamming one button and never being sure what finisher you're going to get which makes it hard to plan, and questionable strategy as enemies keep hitting me despite me laying into them. There's also a lot of weird bugs, like how it shrouds a pit in darkness so you can't see it until its too late. Best of luck!

speed8327 responds:

ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ )(੭ ˊ^ˋ)੭ ♡ Thanks for the honest feedback. Yah I agree, there are still room for improvements. Some of the issues are already fixed in v0.7. Hope to make a full game 1 day out of it.

[Hexpress]

Pretty neat little game! Impressive in terms of graphics and also the assortment of fancy wands that you have to play with. It doesn't quite have enough meat on its bones to make me stick with it for long (more interesting escalations as the score gets higher would be neat) but I still had a good time with it. Nice work!

RunicPixels responds:

Thank you!!~!

[Bauti’s Rich Diet]

Wow, this was a pretty cool game! Absolutely love the intro in how it lets you subvert the premise, and the sense of escalation and momentum that the game has by use of excellent musical cues, evolving enemy types, challenging level layouts and so on feels fantastic and you just can't tear yourself away once you start playing! The slow-mo effect when you munch someone is just so satisfying. The movement controls are pretty tricky to master and it can be a bit annoying bumping into walls and such, but you just gotta love that heroic monster!

I will admit, though, that I rage quit once I got to the shield enemies! I think they are a good escalation in terms of enemy design, but man, something about bumping off of them just really gets under my skin. Once I cool off, though, I'm coming back to eat them: just you wait! Wish I had a continue option so I could get right back, but I don't mind getting a bit of practice in by going through it again.

EDIT: Hah, I did it! Munched those shield guys once I figured out the tech and munched that final boss down: what a great short and sweet adventure this was!

DavidMarchand responds:

That was a wild ride of a comment! Thank you so much for the thought and time you put into it. I apologize in the name of shielded law enforcers everywhere.

[Windowz XP 2012 Professional]

Hah, this was an amusing little trip! Like a toybox, it was fun to poke and prod at everything I could find in the fake OS interface, watching what happens, catching all of the references and seeing how deep it goes. Sometimes it wasn't as interactive as I'd like (a recycle bin with no empty button?) but then other times I'd be surprised at how interactive it was (clicking on that file within the recycle bin). Heck of a nostalgia trip to go through the various Flash files as well: reminds me so much of the little sketches I used to do back in the day. So yeah, it was nice and all, but c'mon, why you gotta remind me that we're never getting Half Life 3?

Kolumbo responds:

thank you for the review!

i really wanted it to have more to the windows aspect of it, but i started way too late to be able to pull it off in time for the deadline. maybe if i actually knew how to code or something, but even this took some effort.
there is a substantially expanded version coming soon, in order to remedy that, though!

hahaha sorry about half life! if its any better, it hurts me too.
but hey, a half life 3 joke is peak 2012

[Earth Day Collab 2024]

Wow, this is a solid art collab! Hits a lot of the right spots that I desire from these and avoids the typical, dull slideshow presentation. The corkboard gallery is a very cute way to present the art and is such a display of variety at once that you can't help but get enticed to click em all. Love how convenient it is that you can easily get to the artist's page by clicking on their piece (though this is absent for the side poetry for some reason) and it's awesome that you can pop the image into another window so you can zoom in for higher detail, which is crucial to be able to read the comics. This also has a nice bit of polish to it, like the cool way the picture swooshes in when you click on it. Well done! Could always aspire to be even fancier, but as said, I'd consider this to be a great ideal baseline example for an art collab.

JYGame responds:

Thanks bro

[Orphanarium]

Cool little metroid adventure you got here! Got quite addicted to finding all the various tools and weaving my way through nuns by climbing around on cupboards: really captured that 'Home Alone' vibe of being a little kid avoiding scary adults!

Really shocked me with the amount of depth the game has in terms of endings: I beat it the first time with the bad ending but couldn't see how the game could be anything but that, but then ended up getting the good ending after realizing how many other tools and routes there were to find! Also thought it was great that the routes all led to big moments, like terrorizing the nuns or having a huge boss fight. Really cool stuff and I can't believe there's even more potential endings I could get beyond those two!

It had a few rough spots here and there but nothing too major: if you stop crawling through a gap it should keep you in crawl mode instead of standing you up and glitching into the geometry, and speaking of crawling, I would've loved the ability to peek downwards if I crawl as there were a few times I jumped and ended up getting hit by something I couldn't see below. Also the game could be a bit plain when it comes to special effects: having the same death animation for everything, certain actions not having any sounds or particles, that kind of stuff.

Veinom responds:

Crawling is underused. It only occurs in the basement for gameplay variety. It would be easier to just remove it!

I do agree about the special effects. I wanted to add some visual and sound effects for the Mirrors, but I kept failing, so I left it as it is.

Thank you for your input and I'm glad you enjoyed this little adventure!

Edit: Thank you for playing the game! Your video was very well made :)
https://youtu.be/of8wxqPhZpw?t=17852

[Kwing VS Cyberdevil]

Hah, this certainly gave me a few laughs and a lot of nostalgia, though for the latter, not exactly in a good way, as it was reminding me of the many terrible Flash-based 2D fighters I've played back in the day, and this unfortunately was just as an awkward mashfest as those were, lacking any sort of coherent feedback or sense of strategy despite my best attempts. Would've loved to have something simple yet deep like Divekick or Footsies, but this ain't it.

Looking past it as a fighting game, however, it was still an amusing experience: the raps were very cool, I loved the goofy animations (those speed lines for walking back and forth, omg), the menus and presentation were neat, and so on. The concept of having more power when it's your turn to rap is neat too. Could definitely be neat, but in its current state, probably better as an audio portal entry instead.

Cyberdevil responds:

Tough critique man, though I do appreciate the honesty. After testing battle mechanics again and again you probably do go a bit blind as to the optimal experience...

The difficulty curve seemed pretty balanced to me in how you wouldn't win all too easily as either one or the other character here, though victory does probably require more so finding and abusing shortcomings in AI response than actually combining moves in as thought-out and rewarding a way as possible, and with limited moves the tactics required are bound to seem a bit repetitive. Valid point on the need for more coherent visual feedback too.

I do think the strategy basis is here, but probably not ideally presented, or balanced, or timed, whatever most impedes the sense of intentional progress... the difference between attacks and block responses could definitely be clearer. Maybe you need more visible openings and lapses in enemy attacks for which you'd best time your own to give a clearer sense of strategy, or more visible forewarning with attacks, so you can dodge or counter accordingly... though personally I do enjoy that more aimless classic button masher battle variety too. :)

Ah well, glad you had some fun with this anyhow, and that the speed lines at least delivered! If there do be more fighting Flashes for the future: good points to consider here.

[Hell's On Hold]

Hah, this was quite a cute and challenging job sim you got here! Love the stylish presentation you got here with cute touches like the brochure tutorial and such (though the colors can be a bit too loud and hide elements at times), and the gameplay was quite addictive and fun to puzzle out! It certainly was a bit confusing and intimidating at first to figure out where to start with the client and how to figure out where they went wrong when it could be anything, but surprisingly I was able to make it through somehow!

It's nice and I probably shouldn't expect more considering its a game jam game, but I had such fun that I couldn't help but be a bit letdown at the low amount of dialogue variations and the lack of any sort of concrete end goal or sense of progression and escalation, as it did make it quite repetitive and made me eventually leave bored. There were also some clunky aspects like how there was no way to fast-forward text. But hey, for a game jam game, I think it did what it had to do: provided a nice concept that I'd love to see a more fleshed-out version of!

OblivionCreator responds:

Thanks for the feedback! To be honest, a lot of the issues with it getting boring over time were kind of known by our team shortly before release, but there wasn't much time to fix things, especially as I was working alone (on the coding side) on the final day trying to piece everything together.

Honestly the reception has been incredible so far and everyone on the team is definitely considering a full release with actually fleshed out dialogue/characters - (Though I'll make no promises on anything!) - At the very least I'd like to get a version released that matches the original vision we had for the game.

[Affordable Healthcare ALPHA Ver.]

Hmm, seems like it could be a decent idle fishtank game akin to Insaniquarium, but I'm not getting hooked in anyway currently. Yes, it is in alpha so I shouldn't expect too much, but still, there should be some sort of core appeal that shines through even early on that intrigues me, but I can't see it as the game just feels rather monotonous, lacking that addictive progression and evolution that these games typically deliver.

A big source of confusion and disappointment for me is the way that the game makes you purchase DNA: you need to purchase 3 to complete a level, with each purchase increasing the difficulty. Ideally, this should be a source of gripping tension and risk/reward: like maybe the user is a on a time limit and would never get enough in time, but purchasing DNA makes it so your blood cells produce more money, so you're pressured into increasing the difficulty to get that benefit to beat the level. But no, you can just play it safe and save up money to purchase all 3 DNA at once: how boring! You can just skip seeing all of the interesting enemies!

Also something to look out for was that by requiring the user to mash-click on enemies, that could lead to misclicks which lead to spending money on oxygen that you didn't mean to: yes it's a minor amount, but it still feels bad to have to be so cautious to avoid misspending.

gheedu responds:

I understand and agree with all your points. I actually kinda regret posting the game so early. I should've waited until it was more complete.
All the things you mentioned are going to be fixed in the following updates.

EDIT: just watched you play the game on your YT channel. Here is the comment I left, for anyone curious:

"Hey! thanks for playing and reviewing my game (Affordable Healthcare)! Watching someone actually play the game has given me a lot of ideas (as well as poked alot of holes in my game design principles for the game lol). Valuable stuff.

I fully admit the game is unbalanced right now, I kind threw a bunch of balancing numbers togheter cause I didn't expect to get frontpaged and so many people to play it at all, haha.
Regarding the difficulty, there are a couple things that increases it besides buying DNA: Buying Red Blood Cells (and not feeding them) and, as you mentioned, idling. For every fever you beat, the difficulty increases a little. One solution I have in mind to fix your issue with buying all DNA at once is just adding a cooldown timer to the button, but I also like the idea of having a time limit for some levels. Thanks again for the feedback."

[awesome calculator]

Hah, amusing little joke game! Doesn't have much to it so I struggle to call it a game, but it nevertheless did gave me a nice little chuckle from how 'epic' it tries to make calculations be and from all the various secrets and references it has. I had no idea what that 9 plus 10 gag was: I guess I'm getting old. Would've loved to see more calculator or number related achievos: can't believe you don't have one for 69, or 80085?

Deaen responds:

its a project i made in like 2 hours even i wouldnt call it a game i have 0 idea why its this popular lmao